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74th Year No. 154 Good Morning! It's Wednesday . March 1 7, 1982 2 Sections 70 Pages 25 Cents
Soviets to freeze missiles
New York Times
MOSCOW Leonid I. Brezhnev announced
Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its deploy-ment
of new nuclear missiles in European Russia.
He also warned of retaliatory measures against
the United States should the Atlantic alliance go
through with the planned installation of new medium--
range missiles in Western Europe.
Addressing a convention of Soviet trade unions
in the Kremlin, the Soviet leader said the freeze
on the introduction of any new medium- rang- e nu-clear
missiles west of the Ural Mountains would
last either until an arms- contr- ol agreement was
reached with the United States or until the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization started " practical
preparations" foi the deployment of the 572 new
Pershing 2 and cruise missiles. Deployment of the
missiles is not scheduled to begin until late next
year.
Brezhnev said further that Moscow intended to
dismantle some of its medium- rang- e missiles this
year. He urged the swift resumption of talks on
limiting strategic arms, and he suggested that in
the interim Washington should agree to freeze de-ployment
of long- rang- e cruise missiles and re-strict
the patrol limits of missile- arme- d subma-rines.
United States officials m Moscow quickly de-scribed
Brezhnev's proposals as " an attempt to
convey the impression of restraint while diverting
attention from the enormous growth in Soviet ca-pability."
Sources in the American Embassy said Brezh-nev's
comments were evidently intended primari-ly
to fuel the antinuclear movement in Western
Europe and the United States
Brezhnev spoke a day after the Reagan admin-istration
said that the Soviet Union had already
deployed 300 new SS- 2- 0 medium- rang- e missiles,
each of which can deliver three nuclear warheads,
and that five new bases, each able to house 50
more missiles, were apparently under construc-tion
The Atlantic alliance agreed in December 1979
to deploy the new American missiles to counter
the Soviet SS- 2- 0 program
In his speech, Brezhnev accused the United
States of evading serious negotiations on reducing
nuclear weapons in Europe To set a " good exam-ple,"
Brezhnev said, " the Soviet leadership has
taken a decision to introduce, unilaterally, a mor-atorium
on the deployment of medium- rang- e nu-clear
armaments m the European part of the
USSR."
" This moratorium," he went on, " will be m
force either until an agreement is reached with
the United States to reduce, on the basis of parity
and equal security, the medium- rang- e nuclear
missiles designed for use in Europe, or until the
time, if and when, the U. S leaders, disregarding
the security of the nations, actually go over to
practical preparations to deploy Pershing 2 mis-siles
and cruise missiles in Europe."
Western diplomats generally agreed with the
American assessment that Brezhnev's proposals
were largely a propaganda thrust, but some of
them also saw indications of Soviet hopes that the
arms talks in Geneva will not falter
Brezhnev made the proposals at a trade union
convention at which he also referred to the prob-lem
of food shortages in the Soviet Union He
seemed to place part of the burden for domestic
economic problems on the arms race, saying that
the " gnm necessity" of maintaining Soviet de-fense
levels " requires diverting considerable re-sources
to the detriment of our plans for peaceful
construction "
In addition to his announcement of a missile
freeze, Brezhnev said the Soviet Union intended
this year " to reduce a certain number of its medium--
range missiles on its own initiative, unless the
international situation worsens "
He did not specify, however, whether he meant
the new SS- 2- 0s or the SS-- 4 and SS-- 5 missiles, which
are neanng obsolescence
Brezhnev also urged the United States to re-sume
strategic arms limitation talks in the " near-est
future," and he suggested that pending their
resumption both the United States and the Soviet
Union stop deployment of sea- o- r ground- base- d
long- rang- e cruise missiles He further proposed
that both sides restrict the range of their missile- arme- d
submarines
United States officials also found these propos-als
insubstantial The suggestion on limiting the
range of submarines, they said, reflected the fact
that missiles on Soviet submarines have achieved
an unproved range, making long- ran- ge patrols no
longer necessary
Reagan: Jb reeze a ploy
to keep missile edge
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President Reagan,
backed by some ranking members of Congress,
rejected Leonid Brezhnev's freeze on deployment
of medium- rang- e missiles m Europe Tuesday as a
propaganda ploy that would lock in a Soviet mo-nopoly.
Presidential counselor Edwin Meese compared
it to a football game where one side is ahead 50-- 0
two- third- s of the way through and tries to freeze
the score for the rest of the game
' ' That's not exactly a fair kind of thing or some-thing
that would be in the interest of the people in
Europe," Meese said on ABCs " Good Morning
America":
" The present score 13 something like 300 to 0 in
intermediate range and nuclear missiles in Eu-rope,"
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told
the Texas Daily Newspaper Association conven-tion
in San Antonio
Sen John Tower, R- Tex- as, chairman of the Sen-ate
Armed Services Committee, said of Brezh-nev's
announcement, " It's a phony proposal be-cause
it would mean freezing the United States
and its allies in a position of critical disadva-ntage"
But House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D- Mas- s.,
and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mas- s., called on the
administration to use Brezhnev's offer as the ba-sis
for a dialogue on arms reduction.
Reagan prefaced his prepared speech to the Ok-lahoma
legislature with the declaration that " a
freeze simply isnt good enough because it doesn't
go far enough We must go beyond the freeze."
The president, citing information released Mon-day
by the State Department, said the Soviet
Union now has 300 new SS- 2- 0 missiles with 900
warheads which can hit targets in Western Euru- op- e.
NATO, he said, has " zero land- base- d missiles
that canhit targets in the UJ5. S R."
Brezhnev also failed to mention, he said, that
because the 85- 2- 08 are mobile missiles, " it
doesn't matter where you put them, since you can
move them anywhere you want, including back
to" bases mEurope.
Reagan reiterated his No?. 18 offer for NATO to
forego planned deployment of 572 UJS. Pershing H
Freeze ' doesn't go far
enough,' says Reagan
and cruise missiles beginning in late 1383 if the So-viets
dismantle all their missiles targeted on Eu-rope.
" And that's fair," Reagan said " If President
Brezhnev is serious about real arms control, and I
hope be is, he will join mreal arms reduction."
Deputy White House press secretary Larry
Speakes, elaborating on Reagan's remarks, called
Brezhnev's move " a propaganda gesture" that is
" neither unilateral nor a moratorium" because it
leaves the Soviet Union " free to continue its SS- 2- 0
buildup east of the Urals, well within range of
Western Europe "
A State Department official said Brezhnev's
" primary purpose is to derail" a decision b
NATO m December 1379 to deploy 572 Pershing n
and cruise missiles m Europe by late 1983 to offset
the Soviets' mobile SS- 20'- s. In announcing the So-viet
freeze on medium- rang- e nuclear missiles in
the European part of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev
warned that if the Western deployment goes
ahead the Kremlin will- retaliat- e with a new gener-ation
of weapons capable of hitting UJS. targets
" In particular," the U. S. official said, " they
want to retain then: monopoly on intermediate- rang- e
nuclear forces and deny the alliance the
ability to either respond to that threat with off-setting
deployments of missiles or to reach an
equitable and verifiable arms control agree-ment"
The official said the Brezhnev proposal " is a
fairly transparent ploy to divide the alliance" and
" to energize public opinion behind them and their
negotiating strategy" at the Geneva talks on lim-iting
nuclear missile forces in Europe
In Texas, Weinberger said the Soviets may have
tuned the move to influence Congress in its de-fense
budget debate
Claus von Bulow remains stoic during verdict
found guilty
Z New York Times
NEWPORT, R. I Claus von
Bulow sat flushed, still and ex-pressionless,
when a jury Tues-day
pronounced him guilty as
charged, of twice trying to bill his
wealthy wife, Martha von Bulow,
by injecting her with insulin
The 55- year-- old Danish busi-nessman
faces a maximum sen-tence
of 40 years in prison.
The Rhode Island attorney gen-eral's
office said that a previous
state supreme court ruling had
established that, should Mrs von
Bulow die, her husband could not
be charged with murder since
that would constitute double jeop-ardy
The 50- year-- old Mrs von Bu-low,
once called " Sunny" by her
friends for her beauty and the
sweetness of her temper, lies in a
coma m Columbia- Presbyteri- an
Hospital in New York, with no ce-rebral
function left above her
brain stem. For weeks, the de-fense
suggested that she was the
victim of her own weakness, of a
self- destructi- ve indulgence in al-cohol,
sweets and drugs
Von Bulow's lead counsel,
Herald Price Fahrmger of New
York, said an appeal is planned
Judge Thomas H. Needham re-served
sentencing until a later
date, and freed von Bulow on
$ 100,000 bond.
The complex, almost novel- lik- e
quality of the case, and the tele-vision
camera in the courtroom,
fed a stream of worldwide public-ity
about the the trial
Von Bulow was indicted bv a
grand jury last July
Price of fill- u- p down locally, nationally
By Jeffrey R. Scott 1
Missouriao staff writer I
Despite plummeting gasoline j
prices nationwide, fuel prices m Co-- I
lumbia are falling at a slower rate
and are not as Tow as those in other
regums of the country.
A survey of area service stations
Tuesday by the Missounan shows a
10 percent decrease from $ 1,265 to
$ 1 134 m the price of self- servi- ce
regulargasoline since last March.
A chart of local gasoline prices is
onpage22A.
But in some cities across the coun-try,
gas is less than a dollar per gal-lon
( 3 8 liters).
Gasoline prices in St. Louis, for in-stance,
have been reported as low as
$ 969- per- gall- on, and as low as $ 889- per- gaH- cn
nationally. ' That's a far cry from the $ li) er- gaHo- n
national average last March
and from the current national av-erage
of $ 1.28- per- gallo- n. Those fig-ures
also are far less than the $ 2- per- gaB- on
that was predicted for the end
of 1981.
Price wars are popping up as
Americans are consuming less fuel
and competition between stations in-creases.
The price of gasoline in Columbia,
however, has not fallen as much, al-though
some dealers say it's possi-ble.
" Gas might be cheaper, a hit down
the road," said Ray Bennett, owner
of Ray's Standard Service, 923 Busi-ness
Loop 70 E. " But that's only
" speculation."
The average priee- per- gaHo- n of
gasoline, according to the stations
checked in the survey, is $ 1,134 for
self- servi- ce regular grade, $ 1,223- per- eaQ- on
for self- servi- ce unleaded
grade and $ 1,293 for self- servi- ce pre-mium
unleaded. Full- servi- ce prices
are $ 1,216 for regular, $ 1,281 for un-leaded
and $ 1,383 for premium- unleade- d.
Prices for self- eervi- ce gasoline
range from $ 1 079 to $ 144 for regu-lar,
$ 1 179 to $ 1,309 for unleaded and
$ 1,199 to $ 1409 for premium un-leaded.
Fuil- eervic- e gasoline prices
range from $ 1,089 to $ 1,429 for regu-lar,
$ 1,149 to $ 1,469 for unleaded and
$ 1.389 to $ 1.50 for premium unleaded.
June' 79 Oct.' 79 Dec' 80 Mar.' 81 liar.' 82
1 EQyLffl l iSM
SSBSH'' Photo Rkatntion by Andy Wanon
Self- servic- e regular gas that averaged $. 799 cents a gallon in June ' 79 now costs $ 1.134 .
Columbia hasat yet sees any
prices as low as $ l- per- gaI- loa. One
reason is the cost of transporting
gasoline to the area, said David
' Wiard, manager of Clark Super 1( H),
221 N. Tenth St. He believes there is
net much pressure locally for lower
prices.
" You charge what the market wQi
bear," he said. " If you can sell gas
for a dollar and 10 cents a gallon,
why drop the price to a dollar? "
The current glut on the interna-tional
on market also is reflected lo-cally.
Suppliers bad trouble getting gaso-line
to their stations during the gas
shortages of 1973 and 1979. Current-ly,
stations supplied by major ori
companies can obtain gas easily.
" We dont have any trouble with
them ( suppliers) as long as we pay
' our biS," said Dave Smith, an atten-dant
at Larry's 66, 1013 West Blvd N
Whether customers are buying
more or less gasoline depends on the
individual station
" We've had no drop in custom-ers,"
said Don Knbbs, manager of
Delta Service Station, 2120 N Pans
Road. " We keep getting more and
more."
One reason for customer loyalty
could be Delta's prices: $ 1 09 for reg-ular
and $ 116 for unleaded. The
price is for fuH- set- vic- e; Delta
doesnt offer customers the self- servi- ce
option.
The absence of a self- servi- ce pump
goes against the trend that has de-veloped
since the gas crisis of 1973
Since then, many stations no longer
offer full- servi- ce The motto that
once hung on the fronts of Shell sta-tions,
" Service is our business," is
fast becoming a phrase of the past.
U. S. hoopla
on St. Fat's
4all a crock5
to the Irish
Missourian staff writer
Parades and boisterous cele-brations
most often accompany St.
Patrick's Day in America, but these
activities have little visibility in the
Irishmen's traditional observances
Iiasiglit
" Most Irish people believe it's an
a crock," says Kerby Miller of the
American celebrations Miller has
visited Ireland three times since
1970 He wrote his doctoral thesis
about the Irish people's experiences
in early America
The Irish celebrate St. Patrick's
Day like most other Catholic holi-days.
They attend mass and reflect
on the saint's missionary work in
Ireland St. Patrick was known as
the Apostle of Ireland because he led
the earliest missions to convert the
islanders to Catholicism.
Facts about bis life are sketchy,
and the first bibliography about his
hie was not compiled until 200 years
( See SHAMROCKS, Page 22A)
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I x i. 4 L - f
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74th Year No. 154 Good Morning! It's Wednesday . March 1 7, 1982 2 Sections 70 Pages 25 Cents
Soviets to freeze missiles
New York Times
MOSCOW Leonid I. Brezhnev announced
Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its deploy-ment
of new nuclear missiles in European Russia.
He also warned of retaliatory measures against
the United States should the Atlantic alliance go
through with the planned installation of new medium--
range missiles in Western Europe.
Addressing a convention of Soviet trade unions
in the Kremlin, the Soviet leader said the freeze
on the introduction of any new medium- rang- e nu-clear
missiles west of the Ural Mountains would
last either until an arms- contr- ol agreement was
reached with the United States or until the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization started " practical
preparations" foi the deployment of the 572 new
Pershing 2 and cruise missiles. Deployment of the
missiles is not scheduled to begin until late next
year.
Brezhnev said further that Moscow intended to
dismantle some of its medium- rang- e missiles this
year. He urged the swift resumption of talks on
limiting strategic arms, and he suggested that in
the interim Washington should agree to freeze de-ployment
of long- rang- e cruise missiles and re-strict
the patrol limits of missile- arme- d subma-rines.
United States officials m Moscow quickly de-scribed
Brezhnev's proposals as " an attempt to
convey the impression of restraint while diverting
attention from the enormous growth in Soviet ca-pability."
Sources in the American Embassy said Brezh-nev's
comments were evidently intended primari-ly
to fuel the antinuclear movement in Western
Europe and the United States
Brezhnev spoke a day after the Reagan admin-istration
said that the Soviet Union had already
deployed 300 new SS- 2- 0 medium- rang- e missiles,
each of which can deliver three nuclear warheads,
and that five new bases, each able to house 50
more missiles, were apparently under construc-tion
The Atlantic alliance agreed in December 1979
to deploy the new American missiles to counter
the Soviet SS- 2- 0 program
In his speech, Brezhnev accused the United
States of evading serious negotiations on reducing
nuclear weapons in Europe To set a " good exam-ple,"
Brezhnev said, " the Soviet leadership has
taken a decision to introduce, unilaterally, a mor-atorium
on the deployment of medium- rang- e nu-clear
armaments m the European part of the
USSR."
" This moratorium," he went on, " will be m
force either until an agreement is reached with
the United States to reduce, on the basis of parity
and equal security, the medium- rang- e nuclear
missiles designed for use in Europe, or until the
time, if and when, the U. S leaders, disregarding
the security of the nations, actually go over to
practical preparations to deploy Pershing 2 mis-siles
and cruise missiles in Europe."
Western diplomats generally agreed with the
American assessment that Brezhnev's proposals
were largely a propaganda thrust, but some of
them also saw indications of Soviet hopes that the
arms talks in Geneva will not falter
Brezhnev made the proposals at a trade union
convention at which he also referred to the prob-lem
of food shortages in the Soviet Union He
seemed to place part of the burden for domestic
economic problems on the arms race, saying that
the " gnm necessity" of maintaining Soviet de-fense
levels " requires diverting considerable re-sources
to the detriment of our plans for peaceful
construction "
In addition to his announcement of a missile
freeze, Brezhnev said the Soviet Union intended
this year " to reduce a certain number of its medium--
range missiles on its own initiative, unless the
international situation worsens "
He did not specify, however, whether he meant
the new SS- 2- 0s or the SS-- 4 and SS-- 5 missiles, which
are neanng obsolescence
Brezhnev also urged the United States to re-sume
strategic arms limitation talks in the " near-est
future," and he suggested that pending their
resumption both the United States and the Soviet
Union stop deployment of sea- o- r ground- base- d
long- rang- e cruise missiles He further proposed
that both sides restrict the range of their missile- arme- d
submarines
United States officials also found these propos-als
insubstantial The suggestion on limiting the
range of submarines, they said, reflected the fact
that missiles on Soviet submarines have achieved
an unproved range, making long- ran- ge patrols no
longer necessary
Reagan: Jb reeze a ploy
to keep missile edge
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President Reagan,
backed by some ranking members of Congress,
rejected Leonid Brezhnev's freeze on deployment
of medium- rang- e missiles m Europe Tuesday as a
propaganda ploy that would lock in a Soviet mo-nopoly.
Presidential counselor Edwin Meese compared
it to a football game where one side is ahead 50-- 0
two- third- s of the way through and tries to freeze
the score for the rest of the game
' ' That's not exactly a fair kind of thing or some-thing
that would be in the interest of the people in
Europe," Meese said on ABCs " Good Morning
America":
" The present score 13 something like 300 to 0 in
intermediate range and nuclear missiles in Eu-rope,"
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told
the Texas Daily Newspaper Association conven-tion
in San Antonio
Sen John Tower, R- Tex- as, chairman of the Sen-ate
Armed Services Committee, said of Brezh-nev's
announcement, " It's a phony proposal be-cause
it would mean freezing the United States
and its allies in a position of critical disadva-ntage"
But House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D- Mas- s.,
and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mas- s., called on the
administration to use Brezhnev's offer as the ba-sis
for a dialogue on arms reduction.
Reagan prefaced his prepared speech to the Ok-lahoma
legislature with the declaration that " a
freeze simply isnt good enough because it doesn't
go far enough We must go beyond the freeze."
The president, citing information released Mon-day
by the State Department, said the Soviet
Union now has 300 new SS- 2- 0 missiles with 900
warheads which can hit targets in Western Euru- op- e.
NATO, he said, has " zero land- base- d missiles
that canhit targets in the UJ5. S R."
Brezhnev also failed to mention, he said, that
because the 85- 2- 08 are mobile missiles, " it
doesn't matter where you put them, since you can
move them anywhere you want, including back
to" bases mEurope.
Reagan reiterated his No?. 18 offer for NATO to
forego planned deployment of 572 UJS. Pershing H
Freeze ' doesn't go far
enough,' says Reagan
and cruise missiles beginning in late 1383 if the So-viets
dismantle all their missiles targeted on Eu-rope.
" And that's fair," Reagan said " If President
Brezhnev is serious about real arms control, and I
hope be is, he will join mreal arms reduction."
Deputy White House press secretary Larry
Speakes, elaborating on Reagan's remarks, called
Brezhnev's move " a propaganda gesture" that is
" neither unilateral nor a moratorium" because it
leaves the Soviet Union " free to continue its SS- 2- 0
buildup east of the Urals, well within range of
Western Europe "
A State Department official said Brezhnev's
" primary purpose is to derail" a decision b
NATO m December 1379 to deploy 572 Pershing n
and cruise missiles m Europe by late 1983 to offset
the Soviets' mobile SS- 20'- s. In announcing the So-viet
freeze on medium- rang- e nuclear missiles in
the European part of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev
warned that if the Western deployment goes
ahead the Kremlin will- retaliat- e with a new gener-ation
of weapons capable of hitting UJS. targets
" In particular," the U. S. official said, " they
want to retain then: monopoly on intermediate- rang- e
nuclear forces and deny the alliance the
ability to either respond to that threat with off-setting
deployments of missiles or to reach an
equitable and verifiable arms control agree-ment"
The official said the Brezhnev proposal " is a
fairly transparent ploy to divide the alliance" and
" to energize public opinion behind them and their
negotiating strategy" at the Geneva talks on lim-iting
nuclear missile forces in Europe
In Texas, Weinberger said the Soviets may have
tuned the move to influence Congress in its de-fense
budget debate
Claus von Bulow remains stoic during verdict
found guilty
Z New York Times
NEWPORT, R. I Claus von
Bulow sat flushed, still and ex-pressionless,
when a jury Tues-day
pronounced him guilty as
charged, of twice trying to bill his
wealthy wife, Martha von Bulow,
by injecting her with insulin
The 55- year-- old Danish busi-nessman
faces a maximum sen-tence
of 40 years in prison.
The Rhode Island attorney gen-eral's
office said that a previous
state supreme court ruling had
established that, should Mrs von
Bulow die, her husband could not
be charged with murder since
that would constitute double jeop-ardy
The 50- year-- old Mrs von Bu-low,
once called " Sunny" by her
friends for her beauty and the
sweetness of her temper, lies in a
coma m Columbia- Presbyteri- an
Hospital in New York, with no ce-rebral
function left above her
brain stem. For weeks, the de-fense
suggested that she was the
victim of her own weakness, of a
self- destructi- ve indulgence in al-cohol,
sweets and drugs
Von Bulow's lead counsel,
Herald Price Fahrmger of New
York, said an appeal is planned
Judge Thomas H. Needham re-served
sentencing until a later
date, and freed von Bulow on
$ 100,000 bond.
The complex, almost novel- lik- e
quality of the case, and the tele-vision
camera in the courtroom,
fed a stream of worldwide public-ity
about the the trial
Von Bulow was indicted bv a
grand jury last July
Price of fill- u- p down locally, nationally
By Jeffrey R. Scott 1
Missouriao staff writer I
Despite plummeting gasoline j
prices nationwide, fuel prices m Co-- I
lumbia are falling at a slower rate
and are not as Tow as those in other
regums of the country.
A survey of area service stations
Tuesday by the Missounan shows a
10 percent decrease from $ 1,265 to
$ 1 134 m the price of self- servi- ce
regulargasoline since last March.
A chart of local gasoline prices is
onpage22A.
But in some cities across the coun-try,
gas is less than a dollar per gal-lon
( 3 8 liters).
Gasoline prices in St. Louis, for in-stance,
have been reported as low as
$ 969- per- gall- on, and as low as $ 889- per- gaH- cn
nationally. ' That's a far cry from the $ li) er- gaHo- n
national average last March
and from the current national av-erage
of $ 1.28- per- gallo- n. Those fig-ures
also are far less than the $ 2- per- gaB- on
that was predicted for the end
of 1981.
Price wars are popping up as
Americans are consuming less fuel
and competition between stations in-creases.
The price of gasoline in Columbia,
however, has not fallen as much, al-though
some dealers say it's possi-ble.
" Gas might be cheaper, a hit down
the road," said Ray Bennett, owner
of Ray's Standard Service, 923 Busi-ness
Loop 70 E. " But that's only
" speculation."
The average priee- per- gaHo- n of
gasoline, according to the stations
checked in the survey, is $ 1,134 for
self- servi- ce regular grade, $ 1,223- per- eaQ- on
for self- servi- ce unleaded
grade and $ 1,293 for self- servi- ce pre-mium
unleaded. Full- servi- ce prices
are $ 1,216 for regular, $ 1,281 for un-leaded
and $ 1,383 for premium- unleade- d.
Prices for self- eervi- ce gasoline
range from $ 1 079 to $ 144 for regu-lar,
$ 1 179 to $ 1,309 for unleaded and
$ 1,199 to $ 1409 for premium un-leaded.
Fuil- eervic- e gasoline prices
range from $ 1,089 to $ 1,429 for regu-lar,
$ 1,149 to $ 1,469 for unleaded and
$ 1.389 to $ 1.50 for premium unleaded.
June' 79 Oct.' 79 Dec' 80 Mar.' 81 liar.' 82
1 EQyLffl l iSM
SSBSH'' Photo Rkatntion by Andy Wanon
Self- servic- e regular gas that averaged $. 799 cents a gallon in June ' 79 now costs $ 1.134 .
Columbia hasat yet sees any
prices as low as $ l- per- gaI- loa. One
reason is the cost of transporting
gasoline to the area, said David
' Wiard, manager of Clark Super 1( H),
221 N. Tenth St. He believes there is
net much pressure locally for lower
prices.
" You charge what the market wQi
bear," he said. " If you can sell gas
for a dollar and 10 cents a gallon,
why drop the price to a dollar? "
The current glut on the interna-tional
on market also is reflected lo-cally.
Suppliers bad trouble getting gaso-line
to their stations during the gas
shortages of 1973 and 1979. Current-ly,
stations supplied by major ori
companies can obtain gas easily.
" We dont have any trouble with
them ( suppliers) as long as we pay
' our biS," said Dave Smith, an atten-dant
at Larry's 66, 1013 West Blvd N
Whether customers are buying
more or less gasoline depends on the
individual station
" We've had no drop in custom-ers,"
said Don Knbbs, manager of
Delta Service Station, 2120 N Pans
Road. " We keep getting more and
more."
One reason for customer loyalty
could be Delta's prices: $ 1 09 for reg-ular
and $ 116 for unleaded. The
price is for fuH- set- vic- e; Delta
doesnt offer customers the self- servi- ce
option.
The absence of a self- servi- ce pump
goes against the trend that has de-veloped
since the gas crisis of 1973
Since then, many stations no longer
offer full- servi- ce The motto that
once hung on the fronts of Shell sta-tions,
" Service is our business," is
fast becoming a phrase of the past.
U. S. hoopla
on St. Fat's
4all a crock5
to the Irish
Missourian staff writer
Parades and boisterous cele-brations
most often accompany St.
Patrick's Day in America, but these
activities have little visibility in the
Irishmen's traditional observances
Iiasiglit
" Most Irish people believe it's an
a crock," says Kerby Miller of the
American celebrations Miller has
visited Ireland three times since
1970 He wrote his doctoral thesis
about the Irish people's experiences
in early America
The Irish celebrate St. Patrick's
Day like most other Catholic holi-days.
They attend mass and reflect
on the saint's missionary work in
Ireland St. Patrick was known as
the Apostle of Ireland because he led
the earliest missions to convert the
islanders to Catholicism.
Facts about bis life are sketchy,
and the first bibliography about his
hie was not compiled until 200 years
( See SHAMROCKS, Page 22A)
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